Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: work-djamil <djamil@××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] xfree86, dri, voodoo, glide, etc.
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 06:35:10
Message-Id: 000901c149ac$662221c0$0400a8c0@djamil.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] xfree86, dri, voodoo, glide, etc. by Joe
1 hey man would you please tell me how you did that ?
2 ...getting 3dfx and all the wrks with gentoo ...
3 thnx !
4 ----- Original Message -----
5 From: "Joe" <jjnievel@×××.edu>
6 To: <gentoo-dev@g.o>
7 Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 2:35 AM
8 Subject: [gentoo-dev] xfree86, dri, voodoo, glide, etc.
9
10
11 > hey i just was to say first of all that gentoo linux is pretty sweet.
12 > it's a nice middle ground for people who've only used redhat and the
13 > like but want to know more about linux.
14 >
15 > anyway the reason i'm writing is that i think there should be a guide up
16 > about how to manually compile XFree86 to use tdfx direct rendering
17 > infrastructure.
18 >
19 > as you might expect, i had to install glide, install glide-v5, decompile
20 > xfree86, edit the host.def, and compile xfree86.
21 >
22 > since i already had the xf86 source from when i emerged it, it wasn't
23 > such a bad deal. but i still had to check newsgroups and look around
24 > for a couple of days before i figured out how exactly to do it.
25 >
26 > so if you could throw something up (i'll write if up if you like :p) on
27 > the webpage, i'd feel much better about it.
28 >
29 > thanks
30 >
31 > --joe
32 >
33 >
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